Obamacare? what are your thoughts

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Hello ladies!

As healthcare professionals, what are your opinions on Obamacare?

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Is there a reason you only addressed this question to the ladies?

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I know this will sound nitpicky, but it annoys me to hear the Affordable Care Act called "Obamacare."

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Specializes in ICU.
I know this will sound nitpicky, but it annoys me to hear the Affordable Care Act called "Obamacare."

^^^This. Especially when health care professionals do it.

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Sorry, excuse my ignorance:( I am not a health care professional just yet, I am still a student so I am not really familiar with the lingo just yet!

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I am so sorry and gentleman:)

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Personally I have no problem with the term Obamacare, even Obama has embraced it. If the best that those opposed to reform can come up with is a catchy, but rather meaningless nickname, to express their opposition then I say we let them use it and I'll even use it myself if it makes anyone feel better, it's no skin of my back.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

My opinion is that the ACA represents the liberals embracing a conservative plan in order to actually pass much needed reform.

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As far as the AFA/"obamacare" is concerned, I think it was a well meaning attempt to compromise between the free market and outright socialized medicine. It has had a lot of unintended consequences as the result of forcing a bill through that should have been looked at more carefully. I think we will continue to see more unintended consequences as ideology and reality collide.

I'm not sure what the best answer is but I don't think the AFA is it. I lean pretty far to the right and the AFA is such a mess that it has me wondering if socialized medicine wouldn't be better.

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I know this will sound nitpicky, but it annoys me to hear the Affordable Care Act called "Obamacare."

I have started telling people who call the Affordable Care Act " Obamacare" to start calling Social Security "Rooseveltsocial" As apparently legislation is called based on which president was in office during its enactment.... LOL

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I have started telling people who call the Affordable Care Act " Obamacare" to start calling Social Security "Rooseveltsocial" As apparently legislation is called based on which president was in office during its enactment.... LOL

I think they just want everyone to be well aware of who is responsible for the mess.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
I think they just want everyone to be well aware of who is responsible for the mess.

Only a portion of the voting population views the ACA as a 'mess'.

Some view the fact that a working but poor woman just died in Florida because the Republican governor did not expand medicaid and she therefore had no access to affordable healthcare as a 'mess'.

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